
Before Tom Frana sold cloud services to Washington, he packed parachutes and learned that delivery means nothing unless the customer can use what arrives. At ViON, that lesson became a business model - and a two-year audition became a career measured in decades.
Magnum Multimedia has spent two decades making federal websites feel less like federal websites. Its real product is the bridge between a citizen's click and the machinery behind it.
How a bootstrapped survey tool from Herndon, Virginia quietly grew into an experience management platform serving 100,000 customers - and why it still refuses to hide its best features behind an upsell.
LanceSoft is a global, minority-owned workforce solutions and technology staffing company founded in 2000 and headquartered in Herndon, Virginia. A certified Minority Business Enterprise and Woman-owned firm, it supplies temporary and permanent talent, Statement of Work services, payrolling, Recruitment Process Outsourcing, and engineering and application-development solutions to more than 110 enterprise and Fortune clients across banking, healthcare, technology, government, telecom, energy, and semiconductor sectors. With over 5,000 professionals and offices spanning six continents and 50-plus countries, LanceSoft pairs large-scale sourcing with a self-described 'human touch' approach to connecting talent with opportunity.
Keith Brendley is the founder, president and CEO of Artis, LLC, a Herndon, Virginia defense-technology firm he started in 1999. A former RAND Corporation senior analyst and co-author of the influential military doctrine 'Shock and Awe: Achieving Rapid Dominance,' Brendley is one of America's leading authorities on active protection systems. His signature invention, the Iron Curtain, uses radar, optical sensors and downward-firing countermeasures to neutralize incoming rocket-propelled grenades within centimeters of an armored vehicle. His newer Sentinel system extends that protection to drones and first-person-view loitering munitions.
Artis, LLC (Advanced Real-Time Information Systems) is a Herndon, Virginia defense and technology developer that builds systems for problems measured in microseconds. Founded in 1999 by Keith Brendley, the company is best known for active protection systems for military vehicles - Iron Curtain and its third-generation successor, Sentinel - that detect and defeat incoming rockets, missiles and drone-borne threats in fractions of a second. Beyond defense, Artis applies its high-speed sensing and parallel-processing work to highway worker safety, 3D imaging and pedestrian monitoring.